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Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Quantum computers would likely outperform conventional computers in simulating chemical reactions involving more than four atoms, according to scientists at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and ...
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Scientists make quantum leap in developing faster computers
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers.
Researchers bring new meaning to the term 'computer bug'
Biology /
May 20, 2008 |
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US researchers have created ‘living computers’ by genetically altering bacteria. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Biological Engineering, demonstrate that computing in liv ...
Presto! Fast color-changing material may lead to more powerful computers (w/Video)
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.
Fast quantum computer building block created
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and ...
Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have shown* that a type of software operation, proposed ...
Physicists perform the first ever quantum calculation
Dec 11, 2007 |
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University of Queensland researchers are part of an international team to have made the first ever execution of a quantum calculation, a major step towards building the first quantum computers.
Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...
Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 02, 2009 |
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The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...
New electrodes may provide safer, more powerful lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom are reporting development of a new electrode material that could ease concerns about the safety of those unbiquitous lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, while giving Li-ion batteries ...
No Power Use in Standby: New Zero-Watt Monitor
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode.
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